One thing I do every year,
personally and corporately, along with my church family is read the Bible. For
me, this all began two years ago reading through the Bible, from beginning to
end. And it’s true, no matter how many times you read stories from the Bible,
you can always glean new information you never noticed before. Last year was a
chronological reading of the Bible. This year, 2014, is something completely
different. We are going to read through the four Gospels, four times. In
addition, I’ve added the reading of Psalms four times too.
On January 17th I
read Matthew, chapter 17. This is the chapter when Jesus led Peter, James and
John up the mountain of transfiguration. After that amazing experience, Jesus
finds out from a father that the disciples failed to heal his demon-possessed
son. Jesus got mad at his disciples and then healed the boy. The disciples
wanted to know why they couldn’t drive out the demon…
“Because of your little faith,” He told them. “For I
assure you: If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will tell this
mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be
impossible for you.”
Matthew 17:20
Sometimes I feel just like
those poor old disciples must have. If all that’s needed is a mustard seed
amount of faith, then I must have faith the size of a… (Wait, need to look
something up) Then I must have faith the size of a quark! I’m always praying for more faith.
Like the song says, ‘oh for faith to trust Him more.’ It’s not that I don’t
have faith in God. I believe completely that nothing is impossible with Him.
But why can’t I believe this truth concerning myself?
Move a mountain, Lord? I’ll
get right on that. Have faith and be patient until my books are published? Got
it, Lord…being totally patient over here!
Then God spoke.
I prayed for my talent to be
used more. Boy did He answer my prayer and what a blessing it’s been. The last
quarter of 2013 was filled with so many dramatic performances, articles and writing,
writing, writing. When my minister handed me what appeared to be a huge stack
of work to be edited and re-worked for Easter I said, “Great, I’ll get right on
this!” But as soon as he was out of sight, I looked at the papers in my hand,
my jaw dropped open, I groaned loudly and the first thing that came to mind was…this is like a flippin mountain of work.
A mountain, where did that
even come from? Oh, I see what you did there Lord! This is one of those lessons
You’re so good at. So to say the least, I’ve been doing a lot of praying and I
actually have faith that God is going to move that mountain. Thank You, Lord
for reminding me of the mountain…the mustard seed…and to a lesser extent, the
quark.
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